The Cedar Tree
| The Cedar Tree | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Soap opera |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Production | |
| Producer | Ian Fordyce |
| Running time | 30 minutes 60mins in 1978. |
| Production company | ATV |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 20 September 1976 – 1979 |
The Cedar Tree was a television serial that ran from 1976-1979 on ITV in the United Kingdom.
It involved the story of the Bourne family, hailing from an aristocratic background, before the turn of the Second World War.[1]
The Cedar Tree was an ATV Production and recorded at the ATV Centre, Birmingham. Two established cast members were the veteran actress Joyce Carey and Susan Skipper, who played one of the Bourne family's daughters.
In February 2013 it was announced [2] that the first 1976 series was to be released on DVD.
Cast
- Joyce Carey - 'Lady Alice Bourne'
- Philip Latham - 'Arthur Bourne'
- Sally Osborne - 'Elizabeth Bourne'
- Susan Skipper - 'Victoria Bourne'
- Kate Coleridge - 'Phyllis Bourne'
- Cyril Luckham - 'Charles Ashley'
- Susan Engel - 'Helen Bourne'
- Jennifer Lonsdale - 'Ann Bourne'
- Michael Macowan - 'Doctor Cropper'
- Pamela Mandell - 'Miss Pringle'
- Carol Royle - 'Laura'
- Jean Taylor Smith - 'Nanny'
See also
- http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/6155
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162798/
- http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/british-television/99535-cedar-tree.html Copy of TV times articular about the series
- http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/forgotten-regional-soaps-3904/